Salvage device for ships.



P. A. RYCZEK.

SALVAGE DEVICE FOR SHlFS..

APPLICATION FILED AUG.26.1918.

Patenteci Feb. 25, 1919.

3 SHEETSSHEET I.

INVENTOR A imzl/fndrvvlwzazi Yuk/4 TTORIVEY P. A. RYCZEK.

SALVAGE DEVICE FOR SHlPS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.26.191B.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919 3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

W I ll)? HORNE) P. A. RYCZEK.

SALVAGE DEVICE FOR SHIPS. APPLiCATlON FILED AUKLZE, 1918.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

' siding" at To elit /tom it may concern it. known that l. Parr. Armin-1w a citizen of the ifnited Ffitates, re- .lerth Ambereounty of Middle- .sex. and State of Ne Jersey, have invented certain new and u:--elul lmprovenu-nts in Salvage Device For Ships. 0i \vhirh the following is a .-.pe(-.ilieation.

This invention relates! to improvements in marine deviees an applied to sea ,e'oing Hhipa and has as its principal object the. provision oi automatically operating means whereby flexible elements. carried in the several com partments ot' the ship, may be inflated so that should damage arise to the ship as to prevent it from sinking.

A further object is to provide meanfs whereby sunken Ships may be raised to the surface by halloondike attaehu'ients operated by a sister ship.

lhese and other like objects are attained by the novel eonstruetion and combination of. parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a material part oi this disclosure and in which Figure 1 is a partial side elevational and vertical sectional view taken through a ship of conventional type and lil liCt'lilli fl the applieation of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevational view of the raising means as disposed Within one of the emnpartments.

Fig. 3 is a vertical Sectional view taken 'l-l1l()l1) 'll the center of the same.

Fig. 4 is a side elevational and sectional view shmving the automatically eontrolied operating means.

Fig. 5 13 a side elevational view show ing a subi'nerged ship and indicating the manner by which may he. raised. to the surface.

Fig. ti is a fragmentary 513213. erhe -'iew showing the connection means i1 .Ji'lltlt the lmoyant elements are attaehed.

Fig. 7 is a side elcvational oi the connecting: elements. and

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side *levational view showing; a.- i'nodified form oi engaging the. sustaining;- elements within the ship. Reterrinn new more particularly to l. of the drawings, a ship 10. shown to he provided with a plurality of horizontally disposed compartinents ll. ll. and 33. the same being" arrai'iged in tiers within the ship. Carried on the ship is an compressor 15.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ATES a'rnnr ()FFICE.

elm. Annanw EYeEEK, 0E PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEY.

SALVAGE DEVICE F6?) SHIPS.

Patented Feb. 25,1919.

Application filed August 2%, 1918. Serial No. 251,393.

adapted to supply a tank 16, from which extends a supply pipe 17. to the lower part oi" the ship, the pipe being: controlled by a valve 18. actuated by the at 19.

Leading from the valve 18, is a supply pipe 20, branched and communicating with all of the several eompartmentsand located in these oon'ipartments are casings provided with covers and adapted to contain flexible inflatable elements 2i. valves 25, being provided in. the connections 2ft, so as to prevent; return of the air, should a break occur in the pipes 20, or if the compressor cease to operate. i

From the foregoing it will be. seen that should a leak occur in the hull of the ship. that water entering the samewill pass downward into the lowern'iost com partn'ient. causing the float: '19 to rise. opening the valve 18. and inflating all of the several buoyant elements 24 by air delivered from the compressor. thereby sustaining the ship upon the surf-nee of the water.

in the modification shown in Fig. 8. in plaee of the eoi'itainer 22. the connections 2%. is engaged with a flexible pipe 28, controlled by the valve 29. set in the pipe eonneetion :20. the inflatable elen'ients 24. being held in operative. position by the chain and aetion elements 30.

in the modification shown in Figs. 5, (i. and 7. av sunken ship is indicated by the numeral 4t). while the tender or sister ship denoted by the numeral 4 1, the same riding upon the Surface of the Water over the sunken ship. (arried on the ship 41 is an air eompartment 42. delivering to the tank i?) and thence through a flexible bone 44 of enitable length to extend down to the sunken ship 40.

A plurality oi buoyant elements 4:i, are engaged with the port holes 4-6, and eonneetions; made. with the lower enrl oi the hose hy divers entering the ship and extending through the port holes the intlatal'ile ele ments when in a. collapsed condition, and also engaging devices which consist of abar 48. seem-ed at its inner end by a chain or like fastening Pivotedly engaged Within the slot 50. lm'med in the bar 48, are a pair of opposed arms 52. pressed normally outward by fiat spring? 53. the arrangen'ient being such that the arms 59. together with the heads 54.

which the inflatable elements are connect-ed, may he extended through the port holes 40 and engaged therewith b the arms 5:2. so that, the raisin elements are firmly secured to the side of the ship and upon being inflated by air through the flexible tube 44 exert; a lifting effect sullicient to raise the ship to the surface.

Having thus described my invention what I elaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a salvage deviee for ships of the. character deseribed, the combination of a plurality o't' inflatable elements located near the port holes of the, vessel to be raised and adapted to be inflated by means carried by 1) the reseuurL vessel, with a plurality of means PAU L A NDR E W R YCZEIC 

